Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software
Freedom Conservancy. A long-time contributor to and volunteer of various Free
Software projects, Kuhn spent five years working for the Free Software
Foundation (FSF) from 2000, serving as its Executive Director from 2001-2005.
During this time, he led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate
Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of
Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary
volunteer from 2006-2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.
He is also on the Board of Directors of the FSF, editor-in-chief of
copyleft.org and the co-host of the 'Free as in Freedom' podcast'.

Werner Koch is a German Free Software developer and the managing director of
g10 Code GmbH, a company specialized in development of Free Software based
security applications. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU
Privacy Guard (GnuPG), a Free Software mail encryption program according to
the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. Koch is also a founding member of the Free
Software Foundation Europe.

Bdale Garbee drives open source strategy and advocacy within
Hewlett-Packard as an HP Fellow in the CTO Office. Most recently, he was
HP Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux. He took early retirement
in 2012 and served briefly as Senior Open Source Adviser to Samsung
before returning to HP in 2014. Garbee has been a Debian developer since
the earliest days of the project, serving as Debian Project Leader (DPL)
from 2002-2003 and as a longtime Chairman of the Debian Technical
Committee, of which he is still a member. Garbee is further president of
Software in the Public Interest, represents the interests of individual
members and developers on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation,
and serves on the board of the Freedombox Foundation.

Jacob Appelbaum is an American independent computer security researcher,
artist and journalist. Currently, Appelbaum is a core member, developer and
spokesperson of the Tor project (a free software network designed to provide
online anonymity), a Debian Developer and a Freedom of the Press Foundation
Technical Advisory Board member. Appelbaum has co-authored several articles
on surveillance published in the German Der Spiegel magazine. His work as an
artist includes the Autonomy Cube - a Debian GNU/Linux powered minimalist
sculpture.

Featured Speakers

In addition to the Invited Speakers, the following Featured Speakers gave
talks at DebConf15:

Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. She
is president of the Open Source Initiative, board member of the Perl
Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source
leaders. She collaborates in the Debian, Ubuntu, Python, Perl, and
OpenStack projects, and currently works on OpenStack open source strategy
at Hewlett-Packard. At various points in the past she has served as chief
architect of the Parrot virtual machine, member of the board of directors
for the Python Software Foundation, chairman of the Parrot Foundation,
Open Source Evangelist at OâReilly, conference chair of OSCON, Technical
Architect of Ubuntu, and Open Source Advisor at Canonical.

Peter Eckersley is Chief Computer Scientist for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists that write code to
make the Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance
and censorship. Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security
projects such as the Let's Encrypt CA, HTTPS Everywhere and the SSL
Observatory. He is also serving as an advisor to 3D microscopy startup
3scan; on the board of the US branch of the Centre for Effective
Altruism; on the Advisory Council of the Open Technology Fund; and as an
affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at
Stanford University.

John Sullivan is a software freedom activist, hacker, and writer. John
is currently the executive director of the Free Software Foundation,
where he has worked since early 2003. He is also a speaker and webmaster
for the GNU Project and a Debian Developer. Until 2007, John was the main
contact behind the Defective by Design, BadVista and Play Ogg campaigns.

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International
(www.li.org). Since 1969 Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems
designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing
manager, educator, and consultant.
He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation,
Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment
Corporation, VA Linux Systems, SGI and Futura Networks (Campus Party).
He currently works as an independent consultant via the Linaro
Association, and has consulted with governments, business and the United
Nations.
Mr. Hall has concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux
systems since 1994, when he first met Linus Torvalds.
He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College
and Daniel Webster College.